Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

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Salma bin Abdulaziz in 2007
Salman bin Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman
House of Saud
Salman bin Abd al-Aziz bin Abd al-Rahman bin Faisal bin Turki Al Saud
Offspring
  • [Fahd bin Salman]
  • [Ahmed bin Salman]
  • [Sultan bin Salman]
  • {Abdulaziz Bin Salman}
  • {Faisal bin Salman}
  • {Hussa Bint Salman}
  • [Saud bin Salman]
  • [Mohammed bin Salman]
  • [Turki bin Salman]
  • [Khalid bin Salman]
  • [Nayif bin Salman]
  • {Bandar Bin Salman}
  • {Rakan Bin Salman}

Prince Salman bin Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman (Arabic: سلمان بن عبد العزيز‎) is one of the Sudairi Seven, a son of Ibn Saud and Hassa bint Ahmad Al-Sudairi. Born in 1938, he currently serves as the Governor of Riyadh, a position he has held since 1962. Prince Salman is reported to arbitrate disputes among the members of the royal family which, along with the governorship of Saudi Arabia's capital city, and a reputation for fairness and competence, has propelled him to be amongst the Kingdom's most powerful royals. He is also known as the owner of Asharq Al-Awsat.

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[edit] Biography

The loss of his two oldest sons, Fahd[1] and Ahmed, within a short period appears to have strengthened his personal conservatism.[citation needed] Salman is conventionally regarded as sixth in Saudi Arabia's line of succession and considered, both in the Kingdom and externally.

His son Prince Sultan was an astronaut on board the United States space shuttle.

[edit] Philanthropy

Salman was also a founder of the Saudi High Commission for Aid to Bosnia, a controversial Islamic charity organization raided by NATO forces in October 2002 on suspicions of connections to terrorist financing. Among the items found at the Commission's premises were before-and-after photographs of the World Trade Center, of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole; maps of government buildings in Washington; materials for forging U.S. State Department badges; files on the use of crop duster aircraft; and anti-Semitic and anti-American material geared toward children.[2]

In November 2002, Prince Salman said that Saudi Arabia, as a country, could not be held responsible what "some change the work of charity into". He stated that he had personally taken part in the activities of those organizations, "and I know the assistance goes to doing good. But if there are those who change some work of charity into evil activities, then it is not the kingdom's responsibility, nor it people, which helps its Arab and Muslim brothers around the world." The prince added that if beneficiaries had used assistance "for evil acts, that is not our responsibility at all".[3]

[edit] Legal counsel

Prince Salman's legal counsel is William Jeffress Jr, of Houston-based Baker Botts LLP.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.saudiembassy.net/2001News/News/OthDetail.asp?cIndex=3106
  2. ^ Matthew Levitt (Fall 2002). "Eradicating Evil: Cracking Down on Terrorist Financing". Intelligence. pp. Vol. 24 (3). http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1080/2/. 
  3. ^ Written Testimony of Jean-Charles Brisard before U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 22, 2003
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